Opportunities Of Social Media Research Articles

The Lasting Effects Of Social Media Trends On Advertising

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Americans are exposed to an astounding number of advertising messages every day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The result of this bombardment of advertising on society is that consumers have become increasingly resistant to traditional forms of advertising.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>After spending millions of dollars on mass advertising that consumers tend to block out and ignore, marketers have re-evaluated their advertising methods and are following holistic marketing concepts that focus on customer relationship marketing and more creative, understated ads instead of in-your-face billboards and loud television segments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>This paper explores social media trends, including social media opportunities and mobile marketing, and the potentially lasting effects that these trends have on advertising<strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">.</strong></span></span></em></p>

Users of the world, unite! The challenges and opportunities of Social Media

The concept of Social Media is top of the agenda for many business executives today. Decision makers, as well as consultants, try to identify ways in which firms can make profitable use of applications such as Wikipedia, YouTube, Facebook, Second Life, and Twitter. Yet despite this interest, there seems to be very limited understanding of what the term “Social Media” exactly means; this article intends to provide some clarification. We begin by describing the concept of Social Media, and discuss how it differs from related concepts such as Web 2.0 and User Generated Content. Based on this definition, we then provide a classification of Social Media which groups applications currently subsumed under the generalized term into more specific categories by characteristic: collaborative projects, blogs, content communities, social networking sites, virtual game worlds, and virtual social worlds. Finally, we present 10 pieces of advice for companies which decide to utilize Social Media.